Wallerawang

Wallerawang Power Station and Lake Wallace. (Photo by Sue Millmore, Portland Librarian)

• In 1824  - James Walker was granted a large area of land in a valley named by the aborigines as        "Waller-owang", meaning "a place of wood and water".                                                                               
• In 1836 -  Charles Darwin stayed at "Wallerowang House" later named as Barton Park and in his book "Voyage of the Beagle" he describes the bush and wildlife (including large number of platypus) .

Ngadhu gawambanna ngindhugir Wiradjuri garai,

I welcome you all to Wiradjuri land

Wiradjuri country is the largest in NSW 

Wallerawang Branch Library is part of the Lithgow Library Learning Centre (www.learningcentre.lithgow.com/)

Other branches are Portland and Rydal.

Wallerawang is situated 14.7 kms north-west of Lithgow, NSW.

Here is a snapshot of the ABS for our area. 

PERSON CHARACTERISTICS
(Place of usual residence)
PERSON CHARACTERISTICS	Selected Region	% of total persons in Region	Australia	% of total persons in Australia
Total persons (excluding overseas visitors)	1,904	-	19,855,288	-
Males	970	50.9%	9,799,252	49.4%
Females	934	49.1%	10,056,036	50.6%
Indigenous persons (comprises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)	52	2.7%	455,031	2.3%
In the 2006 Census (held on 8th August 2006), there were 1,904 persons usually resident in Wallerawang (Urban Centre Localities): 50.9% were males and 49.1% were females. Of the total population in Wallerawang (Urban Centre Localities) 2.7% were Indigenous persons, compared with 2.3% Indigenous persons in Australia

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Here is Wallerawang Branch Library Blog